Hand Lettering #11: Personalized Birthday Magnet, Aries

Hi everyone!!! :o)

I hope you're enjoying your weekend. :o)

Today I want to share with you a hand lettered personalized birthday magnet I made for a friend crafter/blogger from Slovenia, Valentina. She is very creative and super friendly. :o)

How I made the magnet...

I cut a 2" diameter circle base from a Canson XL Mixed Media Paper.

I stamped an adorable Aries from Mama Elephant 'Cosmic Stars' stamp set on the circle base and hand lettered word Aries in block letter handwriting style.

I prepared various hand lettered samples during my personal challenge Celebrating 30 Days of Pisces 2017 to color during a 7th 30 Day Coloring Challenge by Kathy Racoosin of The Daily Marker. This one also, but I colored it after Kathy's challenge. I went with same design and lettering style and made samples for entire Zodiac, but I didn't colored them. I still have a lot of unfinished samples from my personal challenge, some I messed up and still didn't write a wrap up post.... Spring brings laziness here on my blog. LOL :o)

Back to the magnet.... I colored the Aries in watercolor technique, using Distress Inks. Then I heat embossed in clear a gorgeous Hero Arts 'Reverse Constellation' background. I watercolored constellations with Distress Ink Mustard Seed and left the circle dry on air.

I cut a circle out of a magnet sheet with large scissors and glued it together with the colored circle using universal UHU glue. I pressed the magnet with a 32 cm x 32 cm, 1 cm thick glass plate and left it pressed for an hour.

As a finishing touch, I coated Aries's horns and hoofs and constellations with Clear Wink of Stella.

Dimensions: d = 51 mm (d = 2")

List of supplies:

• Mama Elephant 'Cosmic Stars' stamp set
• Hero Arts 'Reverse Constellation' backrogund woodblock stamp
• Canson XL Mixed Media Paper, 300 g
• Ranger's Arcihval Ink (Jet Black)
• TOZ Leonhardy black drawing ink
• Tim's Holtz Distress Inks:
• Mustard Seed
• Hickory Smoke
• Black Soot
• Tsukineko VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
• WOW! Embossing Powder (Clear Gloss, Regular, WA01R)
• ZIG Wink of Stella Brush (Gl. Clear 999)
• UHU universal glue
• magnet sheet
• EK Success Circle Cutter
• dip pen nib (mounted on a paint brush)
• acrylic block (102 mm x 102 mm)
• Marabu fine rounded paint brush no. #0
• scissors
• Ranger Heat It Craft Tool
• 32 cm x 32 cm x 1 cm glass plate
• water
• paper towels

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Enjoy and smile! :o)


Milka